The late Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant Topps rookie card sold for nearly $1.8 million at auction. (more…)
Hobby Archive
Kyrie Irving’s Uncle Drew Trading Card From Panini
Everyone like the Pepsi’s Uncle Drew series, well, especially Kyrie Irving and Cleveland Cavaliers fans. Although the Cavs superstar guard still taking care his injury, Panini America still made a special edition trading card for him and his silver haired alter-ego. (more…)
2015-16 Panini Gold Standard Basketball – the Preview
Few days from now or on October 27, 2015 to be exact will be the start of another golden year for every basketball fans as our favorite sports pastime is set to be back. (more…)
2015 Panini Contenders Draft Picks Basketball
Just in case you missed it, Panini started producing basketball cards (again) which feature a player wearing its collegiate uniform. (more…)
2014-15 Panini Gala Basketball Preview
This August will be a month of high-end cards as Panini is set to release the 2014-15 Panini National Treasures Basketball and as officially announced through its Knight’s Lance blog, the 2014-15 Gala Basketball is also expected to be shipped out from Panini’s head office. (more…)
2014-15 Panini National Treasures Basketball Product Information
One of the expensive products from Panini is under way and it’s expected to carry lots of holy grail cards from last year’s rookie batch. The 2014 NBA Rookies are being comapared to the class of ’84, ’96 and ’03. Take a look now the RC of Jordan (Fleer), Kobe (Topps) and Lebron (Upper Deck), they’re now priced above the roof. (more…)
Chris Webber New Autograph Card in Voices of the Game
Panini introduced another autograph set from its upcoming Threads product called Voices of the Game where it will feature familiar faces from NBA TV news booth. Name such as Craig Sager, Ernie Johnson and Rick Kamla will be available for the fans.
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2014-15 Panini Prizm Basketball Product Details
The shiny cards of Panini Prizm is set to return on December 4, 2014 and looking at the quality control recently released by Panini in their Knight Lance Blog, these cards are again are awesome. (more…)
Beckett Introduces Its BGS Black Label
Do you have a plan to submit your cards to Beckett for grading? Well if your card is lucky enough and scored quad 10s, then you will be rewarded with a BGS Black label. (more…)
27 Panini Hoops Rookie Cards taken from 2014 NBA Draft… What a reaction from Pick 16 Jusuf Nurkić.
The 2014 NBA Draft was concluded last June 6, 2014 and each team has selected their choices for what most people called another hype draft class. In this batch we will witness another one a decade type of player in the person of Andrew Wiggins, Jabari Parker and even the now injured Joel Embiid. We also might expect other players from succeeding picks will standout just like what happened to previous draft classes.
With the hype surrounding the 2014 NBA Draft, Panini America wasted no time and already had its mock-up for the upcoming 2014-15 NBA Hoops Basketball. Below are the 15 NBA Hoops cards taken straight during the draft day.
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2013-14 Panini National Treasures Basketball teaser
Panini America has just posted on their Instagram page of what could be the design of the upcoming 2013-14 Panini National Treasures Basketball. The tentative release of this product is July 30, 2014 and still it is considered as Panini’s high end product.
2013-14 Panini Spectra Basketball
Kobe Bryant – 2013-14 Panini Spectra Basketball
My familiarity of the word “Spectra” came from Hotwheels where cars are having a spectra-flame design but now we can also see it in Basketball trading cards as Panini announced the upcoming release of 2013-14 Spectra Basketball.
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New sets and Jumbo Primes for the upcoming 2013-14 Panini Preferred Basketball
2013-14 Panini Preferred Basketball
Our favorite booklets from Preferred has now something new to offer and it is called Finals Super Prime. Just in time for this year’s NBA Finals between the Miami Heat and the San Antonio Spurs.
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Panini’s 2014 NBA Finals and Father’s Day Promo
NBA Finals – Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images
Just in time for the 2014 NBA Finals and for the Father’s Day occasion, Panini has prepared two themed card set to make the hobby more enjoyable.
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2013-14 Panini Select Basketball Product Information
2013-14 Panini Select Basketball
Panini Select Basketball is set to make a comeback for the 2013-14 NBA season and added new parallels to its Prizm set. Blue Prizms are numbered to 49 and Purple Prizm are numbered to 99.
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